By: Richard Bieglmeier It’s the last weekend of horse racing, stakes racing for 2018. It’s a full Saturday of races with prize money of at least $100,000. There are 11 races dotting the country, from Aqueduct in New York, to Laurel in Maryland, to Gulfstream in south Florida, and Santa Anita in the Golden State.…
Photo: Lauren King/Gulfstream Park The 2019 Kentucky Derby is a party that members of the Albaugh Family Stable don’t want to miss. But to qualify a horse and continue its streak of Derby contenders, it’ll take a different sort of approach this season. The last three years, each of Brody’s Cause, J…
It’s one thing to bet $10 or $20 to win on a horse. It’s an entirely different matter to spend thousands of dollars on buying a horse. Yet every day at racetracks across the country tens of thousands of dollars are spent on claiming horses, and there are indeed times when a claim slip can…
Effort underway to try to bring horse racing to Ford Park KFDM News has learned that an effort is underway to try to bring horse racing to Ford Park in Beaumont. A petition drive is taking place to get a proposal on the May 4 ballot. KFDM/Fox 4’s Angel San Juan reports that Jefferson County…
OLYMPIA- Now that sports betting is being allowed on a state-by-state basis, the diminishing industry of horse racing could be prosperous once again as advocates aim to keep it alive. Horse racing has gradually been dying ever since new forms of gambling have been slowly introduced. Horse racing dominated the market in the…
Dan’s Double of the week, featuring handicapping analysis from America’s Best Racing’s New York correspondent Dan Tordjman, is brought to you by Horseplayers.com, the official online qualifying site of the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) and National Horseplayers Championship (NHC). Horseplayers.com offers low-cost feeders every day and BCBC and NHC qualifiers every weekend, and it’s the only…
America’s Best Racing correspondent Tom Pedulla offers his view of the top 10 stories of 2018 from the sport of Thoroughbred racing. LUCKY 13 Justify joined Seattle Slew (1977) as the only undefeated Triple Crown champions and the 13th horse overall to complete the historic sweep when he rolled gate-to-wire to capture the Belmont Stakes…
Photo: Benoit The American Oaks (G1) was only the second stakes attempt – and the first graded one – for Klaravich Stables’ Competitionofideas, but it was no surprise when she shipped from trainer Chad Brown’s New York base and bested an experienced field. It was also a timely win with the Eclipse Awards…
While lightly raced for a well-bred 5-year-old horse, Tom’s d’Etat has continued to impress trainer Al Stall, Jr. and after a 3½-length triumph in Saturday’s Tenacious Stakes, the conditioner has brought up consideration of trying the son of Candy Ride (Arg.) in the Grade I $9 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park on January 26.…
Southern California racing fans reckon the New Year starts the day after Christmas when Santa Anita opens it winter meeting. This year, there were presents aplenty for the 41,373 fans on the grounds, including a pair of Grade I events two Grade IIs. The rest of the weekend rings out the year with solid features…
